How can SynchronizationContext.Current of the main thread become null in a Windows Forms application?

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Sly, I have run into the exact same behavior when a mixture of WPF, WCF, and TPL is used. The Main thread’s current SynchronizationContext will become null in a few situations.

var context = SynchronizationContext.Current;

// if context is null, an exception of
// The current SynchronizationContext may not be used as a TaskScheduler.
// will be thrown
TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext();

According to this post on the msdn forums, this is a confirmed bug in the TPL in 4.0. A coworker is running on 4.5 and does not see this behavior.

We solved this by creating a TaskScheduler in a static singleton with the main thread using FromCurrentSynchronizationContext and then always reference that task scheduler when creating continuations. For example

Task task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
  {
    // something
  }
).ContinueWith(t =>
  {
    // ui stuff
  }, TheSingleton.Current.UiTaskScheduler);

This avoids the issue in the TPL on .net 4.0.

Update
If you have .net 4.5 installed on your development machine, you will not see this issue even if you are targeting the 4.0 framework. Your users who only have 4.0 installed will still be affected.

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